The Rainbow Bear Colour Sorting Printables support children to recognise primary and secondary colours by sorting the correct bears with the corresponding rainbow bear. These are great to use with colour bears. This helps children to learn colours and to understand colour classification.
A great medium for children to paint with that dries puffy and raised.
Hairstyle Pattern Tracing aims to help children in the development of pre-writing skills. It encourages the child to draw in a specific directions. As a child practices tracing over these lines through copying and tracing this will give them the confidence and ability to write letters and numbers correctly.
This psyllium slime recipe is a great non-toxic alternative to borax slime. It is also taste-safe, so it is safe for younger children, or children who tend to put things in their mouths.
Early childhood is a busy time – there are so many new objects to look at and touch, sensations to experience and activities to explore. Not surprisingly then, it is common for children to occasionally have trouble paying attention. However, adding a sensory component or enhancing the existing sensory features of an activity can help promote attention and engagement. The following article provides strategies and activity ideas for auditory, visual, tactile, oral, and movement sensory stimulation.
On Wednesday 22nd May 2024, at 12:00 pm is National Simultaneous Storytime. It involves children reading the same book simultaneously in libraries, early learning services, schools, and homes across Australia. The book this year is Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker.
World Environment Day Colouring Pages enable children to paint, colour, and collage and can also be used as part of an art and craft experience. World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.
The following lists cultural, special and community events that are taking place in May 2024. This should help you to plan and organise upcoming events and celebrations for May 2024.
With the cold season just ahead, this 2 ingredients fake snow is a great sensory experience for children to engage in.
Dinosaur Pattern Blocks enable children to develop spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. It also helps children to sort blocks based on size, shape and colour which creates farm animals. For children who have pattern blocks, they can recreate these farm animals by placing the right blocks on top of the picture, for others the second page has all the pieces needed that can be cut out and used.
The Early Years Learning Framework identifies that positive attitudes and competencies in literacy and numeracy are important aspects
of communication and are vital for children’s successful learning. The indicators have been developed to support teachers to extend and enrich every preschool child’s numeracy and literacy learning. The following article provides information on What Are The Indicators, the Importance of The Indicators, Learning Processes, Numeracy and Literacy Indicators and more.
Saying sorry is among the earliest lessons in interpersonal behaviour that children learn when growing. There are indeed many benefits of an apology but adults forget that almost always they depend on both sides genuine feeling the emotions rather than being forced to go through the motions. The following article provides strategies to support children to say sorry more meaningfully.
Penguin Match Counting is a counting activity from 1 to 10 for children to match the correct number penguin to the corresponding fish. Children have to count the fish and match the penguin. This activity is great for number recognition, for children learning their numbers and one to one correspondence.
This is a great activity for Penguin Awareness Day on 20th January.
